I think the image of golfers is terrific, and rightly so.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

You kind of live and die by the serve.

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

A man with integrity, with vision, with a sense of purpose and place in the world as exactly himself. That's the kind of man I'll settle for.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.